The Future of SNAP?
Improving Nutrition Policy to Ensure Health and Food Equity
Berkeley Food Institute, Haas Institute, and Goldman School of Public Policy
Request for Submissions for Graduate Student Poster Session (Applications Due May 15)
On May 29, 2015, Professor Hilary Hoynes (Economics, Public Policy) is hosting a day-long workshop on “The Future of SNAP? Improving Nutrition Policy to Ensure Health and Food Equity.”
This interdisciplinary workshop will summarize evidence and research findings on SNAP, identify challenges of current delivery approaches and address recommended actions relevant for the future of SNAP. It will involve panel discussions, including leading researchers from UC Berkeley and other universities, representatives from respected NGOs in the field, representatives from federal and state agencies, and practitioners. Conference attendees will be involved through audience discussions and collaborative break-out sessions.
Graduate students working in the area of SNAP (CalFresh), or potentially (depending on submissions) food and nutrition policies more broadly, are encouraged to participate and attend the workshop.
Graduate students are invited to submit a paper for the poster session.
If selected, you will also be asked to help take notes during the break-out sessions.
Applications due May 15, 2015.
To apply, submit a cover letter, CV and a draft of the paper that will form the basis of the poster (an extended abstract is acceptable if no paper is yet complete) to aaschiller@berkeley.edu
Advocacy Stipend
The Advocacy Initiative at the School of Public Health would like offer two $500 awards to the most compelling student SNAP poster proposals that include advocacy elements. (Students need not be in the School of Public Health.)
Examples of advocacy elements include:
- concrete, actionable and timely SNAP policy reform recommendations to local, state or federal decision makers;
- descriptions of current or proposed advocacy campaigns designed to improve nutrition or food equity leveraging SNAP;
- applied or participatory action research that engages SNAP recipients or potentially eligible recipients themselves in advocacy for SNAP program reforms; or
- other SNAP advocacy programs, research or community-based work.
Conference Organizing Committee:
- Hilary Hoynes, Goldman School of Public Policy
- Nina F. Ichikawa, Berkeley Food Institute
- Ann Thrupp, Berkeley Food Institute
- Barbara Laraia, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
- Elsadig Elsheikh, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society
Confirmed Speakers and Panelists:
- Martin Bourque, Executive Director, Ecology Center, Berkeley
- Pat Crawford, Senior Director of Research, UC Nutrition Policy Institute
- Maria Echaveste, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
- Alexis Fernández, Director of Legislation and CalFresh Team Lead, California Food Policy Advocates
- Elizabeth Gomez, CalFresh Outreach Program Manager, Alameda Cty Community Food Bank
- Dr. Oran Hesterman, Director, Fair Food Network
- Hilary Hoynes, Professor of Public Policy and Economics, UC Berkeley
- Barbara Laraia, Professor, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
- Rich Lucas, Acting Associate Administrator, Office of Policy Support, USDA Food & Nutrition Service
- Andy Riesenberg, Team Leader, USDA Western Region
- Dottie Rosenbaum, Senior Fellow, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
- Diane Schanzenbach, Professor, Northwestern University
- Dr. Hilary Seligman, Professor, University of California San Francisco
- Karla Vasquez, Health Coach, Groceryships, and Director of Programs, With Love LA Market & Cafe
- Jim Weill, President, Food Research and Action Center
Conference Schedule and Panels:
9:15 – 10:30: How Can SNAP Improve Nutrition and Health?
10:45-12:15: Creating an Equitable SNAP System: Access, Operations, and Experimentation
1:30 – 2:45: Recent Challenges and Developments and SNAP as Income Supplementation
2:45 – 3:30: Break-Out Sessions
3:30-4:30: Discussion of new directions for SNAP Policy to ensure health and food equity
4:30: Refreshments and Poster Session of Graduate Student Research
6:00: Adjourn
For questions, contact Hilary Hoynes hoynes@berkeley.edu
